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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9 | Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Tom Crick think his wife Mary is having a love affair with in her old age?
(a) His brother Dick.
(b) Nature.
(c) God.
(d) Their neighbor's son George.

2. What does Tom Crick tell his students is the difference between animals and humans?
(a) Humans tell each other stories.
(b) Humans have the ability to forgive each other.
(c) Humans can plan for the future.
(d) Animals don't kill each other out of jealousy.

3. What disaster befalls Sarah Atkinson when she is 37 years old?
(a) Her husband hits her in the head in a fit of rage, leaving her a living shell of her former self.
(b) Her husband dies and his relatives take all his money from her, leaving her destitute.
(c) She loses her long-awaited first child at its birth.
(d) She is caught on the second floor of her house when it burns down.

4. Tom Crick mentions a similarity his father found between his home and the battlefields of World War I. What is that similarity?
(a) The men were silent and preferred to keep to themselves.
(b) The army served the same ale the Atkinsons brewed in Gildsey.
(c) The pretty girls in the town were disdainful of him.
(d) The mud felt the same and eels swam in the pools.

5. The headmaster of the school where Tom Crick teaches history thinks Tom should retire from his job. Why?
(a) All of the above.
(b) History will be eliminated from the curriculum.
(c) Tom Crick has stopped teaching the syllabus.
(d) The headmaster does not like Tom Crick.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main fish that the Cricks and their neighbors catch for food?

2. Lewis Scott, the headmaster at the school where Tom Crick teaches, thinks history should be considered part of what other field?

3. On the day that Freddie Parr was found dead in the river, Mary confesses what to Tom?

4. To what does Tom Crick compare the soil of the Fens?

5. What gives the Atkinsons the decisive advantage over the other brewers in the Gildsey area?

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